Polecat Quotes & Sayings

Numb" described his effect on her like "handsome" described Abe Lincoln. A woman would have to be dead not to feel a vigorous stirring for a man so incredibly handsome as her wandering polecat. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

that a well-cooked polecat is as good to eat as a pig, and that stewed rattlesnake is not so — Arthur James Lyon Fremantle

This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at one the polecat and the fox. His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell. — Alexandre Dumas

Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I have to make some copies? The result was that once again nearly all (93 percent) agreed, even though no real reason, no new information, was added to justify their compliance. Just as the "cheep-cheep" sound of turkey chicks triggered an automatic mothering response from maternal turkeys - even when it emanated from a stuffed polecat - so, too, did the word "because" trigger an automatic compliance response — Robert B. Cialdini

Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from? — Stieg Larsson

The black dog snarled. The polecat snapped its teeth and passed gas. — Rick Riordan

-You know
Eddis hesitated, not sure how far to push the Attolian Queen.
-Go on. Attolia inclined her head.
-I was going to say that you look like a polecat when you smile like that.
-Do I? Attolia still smiled. -You look a little vulpine yourself.
The two queens sat for a moment in happy agreement. — Megan Whalen Turner